This thesis examines what constitutes the different cinematic styles of horror movies – color/ lighting, time/motion, spatial relationships, and sound – in different horror movies.

When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare. Why? Some of the reasons are simple and …

See King’s Danse Macabre, H.P. Lovecraft’s “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” Noel Carroll’s The Philosophy of Horror, and Daryl Jones’ Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film, …

ion of the Hollywood horror film industry has always included meta-phors of what haunts American society. This indus. ry capitalized on these fears in mov-ies such as Poltergeist (1982) and the …

Scale yields measures of four types of scary content: Happy Ending, Danger, Excitement, and Suffering. Subscale scores range from 1-5, with higher scores indicating that the content …

What is Horror? “Horror is a story in which the author manipulates the reader's emotions by introducing situations in which unexplainable phenomena and unearthly creatures threaten the …

It provides a brief overview of the development process in the realm of literature, film and computer games and outlines its appearance in other fields of culture and art. It characterises …